The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday dashed hopes that the Ebola drug ‘Remdesivir’ and three other existing medications could be useful tools against COVID-19. Trials with four drugs conducted among 11,000 patients in 30 countries “appeared to have little or no effect’’ on survival and on the progression of ...
By Taiwo Ajala About 50 million Africans are expected to fall into poverty before the end of year 2020 as a direct consequence of the global COVID-19 Pandemic, a Goalkeepers Report, published annually by Bill and Melinda Gates has said. The number is a sharp rise from an earlier pre-covid ...
By Elohor Igbru Nigeria's international image continues to plummet over the weekend as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) becomes the latest country to humiliate Nigeria with COVID-19 palliatives. The Emirate government in a tweet said the Prime Minister of the UAE, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has ...
By Elohor Igbru As Nigeria joins the world in celebration of the World Mask Week (WMW), the Centre for Communication and Social Impact (CCSI) said it has rolled out series of activities that would create awareness and raise the consciousness of Nigerians on how wearing of facemasks can help flatten ...
From Kolawole Omoniyi, Kano A number of stakeholders including Kano Anti-Corruption Agency, Civil Society Groups and Persons Living With Disability (PLWD) have decried the irregularities recorded during the last two batches of COVID-19 palliative distributions in Kano over alleged hijack by politicians and poor monitoring of the distribution to the ...
By Ademola Adeleye Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari today landed in Bamako the capital of the West African country of Mali. This is Mr. Buhari’s first visit outside of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city since the coronavirus pandemic forced a partial lockdown of the country in March 2020. Yesterday, Buhari’s Special Adviser ...
By Adéyemí Olusoga The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has said its newly commissioned Dialysis Centre at the 063 NAF Hospital in Abuja can handle treatment for at least three patients undergoing dialysis. The Centre was commissioned on Wednesday July 1, 2020 by the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air ...
By Elohor Igbru The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has revealed how it will help to end the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic which has ravaged the world for about six months now. The Foundation revealed that it has pledged an additional $1.6billion to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to protect the ...
